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Hines Wins Again At Sonoma NHRA
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ine races into the 16-round
NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle
season and Screamin' Eagle
Harley-Davidson's Andrew Hines
is entering uncharted territory.
Following his latest win at the
NHRA Sonoma Nationals, July
26-28, Hines has now won seven
of the first nine races to set a new
career-best. He's won six events
in a season twice. Hines also has
a nearly perfect 29-2 record in
elimination rounds, which puts
him on pace to reset his career-
best of 47-10 set in 2012.
In Sonoma, Hines not only de-
feated Denso EBR's Matt Smith
in the final to win his 55th career
event title, but he also captured
the $25,000 top prize in Satur-
day's Mickey Thompson Pro Bike
Battle, a separate invitational
event open to only to the top
eight riders in the class. Hines
has now won that race seven
times in his career.
"This weekend was phenom-
enal," Hines said. "We built this
new chassis and wrapped it with
the Harley-Davidson FXDR body,
and it's a package that was made
to perform. This bike was built for
me, and I'm so comfortable on
it. It's mind-boggling what we've
been able to achieve this year.
The level of professionalism we
have on our team is unsurpassed.
I told my crew after the final that
they make my job so easy."
Hines raced teammate Eddie
Krawiec in the final of Saturday's
Pro Bike Battle and won eas-
ily to pad his bank account by
$25,000. He then set his sights
on an elusive double-win and fin-
ished the rout by beating archrival
Smith in Sunday's final round.
Hines made his best run of the
Matt Smith (1) and Andrew
Hines (6) met in the NHRA
Pro Stock finale at Sonoma.
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